“James Murphy, age 57 years, a well-known Greenup county man, was killed by a fall of slate in the mines of the Main Island Creek Coal Company at Barnabus, West Virginia, several days ago. The remains arrived in Ironton and were intrerred in Lawrence cemetery. Reverend Sampson conducted the funeral. This is the third member …
“Wheeling, West Virginia, November 3 – Jealousy caused terrible tragedy at Georgetown, Ohio, three miles west of this city. All concerned in the affair were from Wheeling. Scott Linton shot Dot Gray, a woman of the town said to have been his wife, and William Metzger, in whose company she was.” “With both lying at …
“Oscar Snook of Rarden, son of William Snook, employed on the Nave Brothers’ contract in West Virginia was hit by an N&W train and killed Wednesday. The remains will be interred at Rarden.”
“Burned about the face and body when she used a match to light a corncob pipe, Mrs. Rebecca Mosley, 78, of 317 Front street, died at 11:20 AM today in Portsmouth General Hospital.” “Discovered with clothes blazing by a 4-year-old girl, Mrs. Mosley suffered first, second and third degree burns down to her knees Tuesday …
“Two soldiers were arrested Sunday on charges of deserting the army and one faced an additional charge of escaping from the guardhouse.” “The gave their names as Raymond H Shover, 23, of Friendship, and Meddie Wilson Graley Jr., 21, of Clothier, West Virginia.” “Sheriff Earl C Brandel received a message from Camp Edwards, Massachusetts, to …
“Mr FD Rightmire, baggage man at the N&W railroad, received word today that his nephew, Elwood Rightmire, the seven year-old son of Mr WA Rightmire, of Huntington, was burned to death Monday night. The child was playing with the fire in the grate when his clothing ignited, and before anything could be done he was …
“Williamson, West Virginia. April 21. By the Associated Press. Johnst Hatfield, son of the late ‘Devil Anse’ Hatfield, and an active participant in the Hatfield-McCoy feud of years ago, died in his mountain cabin at Wharncliffe, near here, late last night.” “When the feud was at its height, Johnst, who was known as ‘Devil Anse’s …
Back in 2019, while shopping in an antique store in Portsmouth, Ohio, I came across the above marriage certificate for Leonard Hicks and Alma Wagner. These two young people were united in marriage on September 21, 1922, in Catlettsburg, Boyd County, Kentucky.
“A young man named Dixon who formerly lived near Lucasville, in this county, but who has been working in the machine shops at Kenova was the central figure in an animated scene at the latter place Thursday. Dixon who worked about the Brushart planing mill last summer left for Kenova early in the fall and …
How Arthur Boynton and Miss Lillian Rhodes Overcame Opposition to Wedding “Back of the departure Monday night of Arthur C Boynton and Miss Lillian Rhodes for Huntington, West Virginia, to be married there is an interesting story showing how love will find a way to surmount obstacles.” “Miss Rhodes, the bride-elect, has been reared since …